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    See if you can find Daisy Chainsaw's one hit "Love Your Money" - lovely grindy noisy bass sound on that. And of course there's the Ben Folds Five back catalogue for Muffed-up goodness, although Robert Sledge didn't have a guitarist in the way. His Muff pretty much makes this performance of [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XG1INvA1aes"]Fair[/url].
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    [quote name='bilbo230763' post='336346' date='Nov 25 2008, 03:50 PM'] I guess different is not good enough!![/quote] Carrots are not the only veg.
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    [quote name='xgsjx' post='336285' date='Nov 25 2008, 02:51 PM']looking for a more mellow kind of sound (think "Your Song" by Groove Armada) that I could then liven up with a fuzz.[/quote] Have you tried the Boss OC-2? If you solo the -1 Oct it does that warm hummy bass synth noise very well. [quote name='bilbo230763' post='336302' date='Nov 25 2008, 03:11 PM']I have tried several pedals on and off but, to date, I have never found one that makes the bass sound better than a bass straight through an amp. Different, yes, but not better.[/quote] "Different" is what we're going for, not better.
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    Let's not forget that he was the bassist in the Sugarhill Records house band...
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    Do they do red ones? I always fancied a blue 'ray with a white pickguard and red pickup.
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    [quote name='Beedster' post='334183' date='Nov 22 2008, 12:06 AM']I don't recall describing it as either vintage or collectable, simply as rare, which it undoubtedly is, and as a great player, also true Thanks to the rest of you for your slightly more constructive comments [/quote] I wasn't trying to be constructive or otherwise. Someone rhetorically asked why it was still here and that's the thing that primarily put me off it, so that's what I said. It still looks like a nice bass, I just prefer old basses to look like old basses.
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    [quote name='lozbass' post='334091' date='Nov 21 2008, 08:43 PM']why is this still here?![/quote] The refinish?
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    That Cusack box looks pretty neat. Never even heard of it before.
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    Anyone know of any tap-tempo tremolos besides the Diamond, Ultrem and the Seymour Duncan one?
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    [quote name='LWTAIT' post='332628' date='Nov 19 2008, 09:00 PM']these guys know what theyre doing. theyre all professional musicians,[/quote] By definition, anyone who makes money from an activity is a professional. When preceding the word "musician" that includes homeless people with penny whistles and middle-aged men at wedding receptions playing Mustang Sally. It's the amateur musicians you should trust.
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    Surprised it went that cheap tbh. No phaser fans around here it seems.
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    Bump. Open to offers from anyone who can come and collect it.
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    Race you for it, Finbar.
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    This cab is now sold. 4x10 plus tweeter, 4ohm, 450W, full specs can be found [url="http://www.ashdownmusic.com/bass/detail.asp?ID=24"]here[/url]. Mine is the older style cab with the silver steel grille, carpeted, no tears or stains or anything, it's in very good nick. I've had it about a year but never gigged it because I can't get it in and out of my first-floor flat on my own. Consequently it's never been driven above household volume. I just bagged Geester's far more flat-friendly Schroeder cab so this can go now. Asking £100! but it will have to be collection only from central York, or I could potentially deliver it within a reasonable distance if my missus ever gets home from work with the car in a reasonable time (which she rarely does).
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    An old Hondo or Encore precision copy. I'm going to need a fire.
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    [quote name='Finbar' post='331689' date='Nov 18 2008, 06:31 PM']Can't believe it was listed and sold while I was at work [/quote] Phew!
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    [quote name='Matty' post='331617' date='Nov 18 2008, 05:15 PM']Electro Harmonix POG or HOG.[/quote] +1.
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    Hi dude, Would you be up for shipping (made a funny Freudian typo there but corrected it!) this? I could really use one of these but I'm in York.
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    I think we've had a thread on him before. He's a busker in Barcelona, I saw him last year and bunged him a bunch of money, he's a really great player.
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    [quote name='YouMa' post='307533' date='Oct 16 2008, 01:00 AM']People who slag off bands like these should try and play them as well.[/quote] But there are lots of bands with talented musicians that sound bad. Equally - thankfully - there are lots of bands made up of mediocre musicians with terrible voices who sound [url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6xsKsJqVyg"]awesome[/url]. And he's got a pretty stonking bass sound too.
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    [quote name='bilbo230763' post='330452' date='Nov 17 2008, 09:40 AM']'Mustang Sally' has become a parody if itself, as have 'Midnight Hour', 'Dock Of The Bay' and 'Superstition'. Pointing the slow unmoving finger of scorn at Jazz doesn't alter that in any way.[/quote] I don't know about you, but when I was a kid first learning to play bass my dream was to play at weddings each weekend, performing songs like Mustang Sally in the club singer style, maybe wearing a suit, and always maintaining an air of discreet professionalism. That's showbiz.
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    Yeah I used to get free DR strings when I played in a band in the USA, they're great. I never see them over here though and never think of ordering them in. I put slinkys (100-45) on my Thumb yesterday and they sound pretty good so far. Nice and fat, chunky sound and they feel a little smoother than the Rotos too. Have to see how they cope after a couple of weekends of abuse though.
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    Pretty much every day is like that for me. I just sit playing my bass and occasionally going "Whoa, I'm awesome". I have to be careful not to play in any room where ladies are sitting because they tend to slide off their chairs.
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    Wow, this thread took off. I'd forgotten I'd posted in here.
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    Heh, this would match my fretless... It would mean I'd have to stay sober at gigs though, to avoid picking up the wrong one. Maybe I should just stop taking the fretless to gigs actually, save everybody the earache.
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